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Tips for Traveling with Young Children
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Six Tips for Travelling with Small Children

June 8, 2022
I originally published this post in 2011, but the information is still relevant for families traveling with small children.  Our family has not had a travelling vacation since...
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Why My Child Didn’t Apply to Elite Colleges

February 16, 2022 in family, Featured, Kids, Money Matters, Ways to Save
Bookworm is graduating this year. (How did that happen?!) In the fall, he began applying to colleges. However, we decided early on he wouldn’t apply to...
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How to Be a More Organized Mom

How I Plan to Be an Organized Mom

January 26, 2022 in family, Featured, Homeschool, Kids, Meal Ideas, Menu Planning, OAMC, organizing
This post contains affiliate links.  You would think since we’re not running around as much as we used to pre-pandemic that I would be the organization queen.  However, that hasn’t happened.  Even though we’re driving around less,...
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How We’ve Been Spending Time at Home

July 15, 2020 in family, Featured, Kids
This post contains affiliate links.  The last time we went out freely in public was on March 13, 2020.  Since then, we’ve largely remained at home.  We are blessed that my husband can work from home and...
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How We’re Paying Cash for Phase One of Our Son’s Braces

March 23, 2015 in frugal activites, Kids, Ways to Save
So, Bookworm needs braces.  We’ve known this day would come, but we kind of buried our head in the sand and ignored it. However, now that he is almost...
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How Much Do You Sacrifice for Your Children?

August 14, 2013 in Kids
We have a limited income, but quite a bit of money goes for our kids.  Until just this year, Bookworm had attended private schools all his life, first...
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Let Your Child Have Fun AND Learn About Money This Summer With Money Confident Kids

June 20, 2013 in Kids, Kids' Activities
Bookworm is starting to earn more for his allowance, and at 9, he’s becoming more aware of saving for what he wants.  For instance, every spring, just a few weeks before...
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Our Strawberry Picking Trip and What To Do with 66 Pounds of Strawberries

June 11, 2013 in Kids, Kids' Activities, organic food
Last year, we headed down to Mulberry Lane Farm, the only farm in Illinois to offer u-pick organic strawberries and picked and bought 43.5 pounds of...
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Our Life Changing Decision: We’re Going to Homeschool Our Children

June 10, 2013 in education, Homeschool, Kids
A few years back when my son was just in first grade, he suffered from a serious incident that happened to him at school.  I’m not at liberty...
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2013 Summer Reading Programs for Kids

May 14, 2013 in family, Kids, Kids' Activities
  I find it hard to believe, but my...
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